JavaScript Contracts in Manchester

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring JavaScript skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JavaScript over the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 47 31
Rank change year-on-year +8 -16 -18
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 43 45 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.30% 3.53% 6.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.04% 12.50% 20.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 32 82
10th Percentile £363 £318 £325
25th Percentile £400 £422 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £638
90th Percentile £542 £575 £675
North West median daily rate £401 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -15.58% -13.64% +7.84%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

JavaScript falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 268 360 539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 26.80% 28.26% 29.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 260 422
10th Percentile £319 £356 £363
25th Percentile £400 £401 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £524
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.31% -0.24%
75th Percentile £545 £550 £605
90th Percentile £625 £638 £675
North West median daily rate £438 £475 £523
% change year-on-year -7.89% -9.09% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 14 4
10th Percentile £45.16 £52.50 £39.38
25th Percentile £68.13 £55.00 £53.44
Median hourly rate £74.50 £70.94 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +11.27% -8.93%
75th Percentile £87.69 £80.88 £68.13
90th Percentile £91.88 £99.25 £73.75
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +27.27% +19.10% +22.17%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in Manchester

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in Manchester

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in Manchester

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in Manchester

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
1 2 (4.65%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (2.33%) CMS
2 1 (2.33%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.33%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (55.81%) AWS
2 7 (16.28%) Azure
3 6 (13.95%) Serverless
4 5 (11.63%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (11.63%) SaaS
5 4 (9.30%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (9.30%) GitHub
6 3 (6.98%) Power Platform
6 3 (6.98%) PowerApps
7 2 (4.65%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.65%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.65%) dbt
7 2 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (4.65%) Power Automate
7 2 (4.65%) ShareGate
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.33%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) HTTP
1 2 (4.65%) Intranet
2 1 (2.33%) DHCP
2 1 (2.33%) DNS
2 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.98%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (4.65%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.65%) MySQL
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Git
2 4 (9.30%) GitLab
3 2 (4.65%) JIRA
3 2 (4.65%) REST Assured
3 2 (4.65%) Selenium
4 1 (2.33%) Ant
4 1 (2.33%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.33%) Balsamiq
4 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.33%) Eclipse
4 1 (2.33%) gulp
4 1 (2.33%) IntelliJ
4 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.33%) JUnit
4 1 (2.33%) Maven
4 1 (2.33%) NUnit
4 1 (2.33%) Postman
4 1 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.33%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (20.93%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.98%) Banking
2 3 (6.98%) Finance
2 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.65%) Retail
4 1 (2.33%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 21 (48.84%) Developer
2 14 (32.56%) Senior
3 10 (23.26%) Software Engineer
4 9 (20.93%) Senior Software Engineer
5 6 (13.95%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (11.63%) AWS Software Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (9.30%) Senior Developer
8 3 (6.98%) Angular Developer
8 3 (6.98%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 2 (4.65%) .NET Developer
9 2 (4.65%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
9 2 (4.65%) JavaScript Developer
9 2 (4.65%) Principal Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) QA Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) SharePoint Developer
9 2 (4.65%) Software Developer
9 2 (4.65%) Tester
9 2 (4.65%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (48.84%) Node.js
2 14 (32.56%) HTML
3 13 (30.23%) CSS
4 12 (27.91%) React
5 8 (18.60%) .NET
6 7 (16.28%) AngularJS
7 4 (9.30%) AWS CDK
7 4 (9.30%) Express.js
7 4 (9.30%) Playwright
8 3 (6.98%) GraphQL
8 3 (6.98%) RESTful
9 2 (4.65%) .NET Core
9 2 (4.65%) ASP.NET
9 2 (4.65%) Hibernate
9 2 (4.65%) Jest
9 2 (4.65%) Lambda Expressions
9 2 (4.65%) REST
9 2 (4.65%) RxJS
9 2 (4.65%) Spring
9 2 (4.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.63%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.33%) Tandem
4 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Linux
1 1 (2.33%) Unix
1 1 (2.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (44.19%) Agile
2 12 (27.91%) Software Engineering
3 8 (18.60%) CI/CD
4 7 (16.28%) DevOps
4 7 (16.28%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (13.95%) Test Automation
6 4 (9.30%) Front End Development
6 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (9.30%) Microservices
6 4 (9.30%) Scrum
6 4 (9.30%) User Experience
7 3 (6.98%) Clean Code
7 3 (6.98%) Containerisation
7 3 (6.98%) Mentoring
7 3 (6.98%) Open Source
7 3 (6.98%) User Stories
7 3 (6.98%) Wireframes
7 3 (6.98%) Workflow
8 2 (4.65%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 21 (48.84%) TypeScript
2 9 (20.93%) C#
3 6 (13.95%) Java
3 6 (13.95%) SQL
4 3 (6.98%) Python
5 2 (4.65%) Bash
6 1 (2.33%) Perl
6 1 (2.33%) PHP
6 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.33%) Scala
6 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.65%) Degree
2 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) QA
2 4 (9.30%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (13.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) Terraform
2 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.65%) Nintex
3 1 (2.33%) Ping Identity
3 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow